This post is sponsored by Oriental Trading Company, but please note all ideas and opinions are my own.

I have LOVED partnering with Oriental Trading on different holidays and projects and with Halloween fast approaching I’m thrilled to be partnering once again!

I had the opportunity to do not one, but two projects for Halloween, one Crafty Kid Craft with Sadie and another project for me. 🙂 For Sadie, I went and got her a copy of It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. I love getting her books for holidays and Dave used to be a huge Peanuts fan when he was younger. I started the craft off like I usually do for Sadie, but leaving clues around the house!

I just took pieces of yellow construction paper, cut them in half and then free handed the Charlie Brown chevron pattern on each one with a black marker. Taped them to the floor in a pattern leading to the book and feigned surprise when Sadie discovered her first one. Then she followed them around the house!

Discovery! (Meanwhile its always in the same spot haha)

We had some stuff to do in the beginning of the day but later that afternoon Sat down to read It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!

First I pulled out a piece of posterboard I had and covered it in black paper to make our spooky night sky. Then I used a roll of green crepe paper I had make the field.

Then we got to work on our pumpkins! Each of the pumpkin decorating kits comes as a pre-made face but we had a lot of fun mixing them up to make new ones!

See the resemblance? Hahahaha!

My masterpiece. 🙂

When we were done, Sadie directed where each of our pumpkins should go, we added some more glitter, a tree of Sadie’s design, and a moon. And voila! We had our pumpkin patch for The Great Pumpkin(s)!

I really need to make it a point to craft with Sadie more often – she really enjoys it and especially loves activities that involve all of us!

I also snuck in a little craft for myself! I had made a Halloween wreath years ago out of a foam floral wreath and it was falling apart. I wanted to try my hand at one of those burlap wreaths and Oriental Trading had all the materials! I used this tutorial, and you will need:

The tutorial is pretty easy to follow but it does take a few tries to get the hang of it. Once I figured out the movements and pattern it became second nature and I breezed through! I do wish I would have used a larger wreath frame, but I wound up just gluing more of the burlap to the outer layer of the wreath to make it wider. Then I took pieces of the boa and glued it onto the wreath, fluffing and gluing until it was just right.

What do you think?

I personally LOVE how it came out.

I think the feather boa gives it such a nice touch!

Ta-Da!

Super easy and I love how I can use it all throughout Fall and not just Halloween!

Share any crafts you’ve done with your family or on your own!

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Aaaahhh!!! So much fun. I love it when everyone gets involved too. That is such a great way to make doing things like this even more special!Beth Newman recently posted…Five Things Friday, October Joys

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